AlexisWiggins

I have worked for two decades as an ELA, ELL, and humanities teacher in the U.S. and in five different countries. I am an experienced curriculum designer for UbD and the IB's Diploma Program. I was an instructional coach for three years and have written a best-selling book, The Best Class You Never Taught (ASCD 2017). I am passionate about teaching and writing great curriculum.

I believe that my number-one job as teacher is to develop the innate talent lying within every child. I don't believe in worksheets, lecture-based classrooms, or sarcasm. School should be a place for deep, intellectual challenge and fun -- they are not mutually exclusive qualities.

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Alexis Wiggins is the founder and director of the Cohort of Educators for Essential Learning (www.ceelcenter.org) and the author of The Best Class You Never Taught: How Spider Web Discussion Can Turn Students into Learning Leaders (ASCD). Alexis currently serves as the English Department Chair at The John Cooper School in The Woodlands, TX. She can be reached at the email awiggins@ceelcenter.org or via Twitter @alexiswiggins